Welcome to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. My guest this week is Dr Harm Van Rees.

In the early 1990s Harm began consulting to growers across the Victorian Wimmera and Mallee.

He became well known and highly regarded throughout the farming industry for his instrumental roles in the MEYCheck (Maximum Economic Yield) and Top Crop programs which were transformative in the 1990s in terms of driving understanding around production constraints such as water use efficiency and nitrogen management.

He was instrumental in the use of farmer groups in the region to assist farmers improving the understanding of crop and pasture production techniques. Bringing growers and researchers together to solve production issues was his focus.

In being awarded the GRDC2020 Excellence award the judges stated that “Cropping in that region of Victoria has come a long way thanks to Harm. And as a result, the community has benefited tremendously."